Tag: #socialmedia

Facebook restricts access to support groups

Startling news to hear of Facebook’s newest incursion into ordinary lives of those living with disabilities/illnesses by not showing recommendations for health related groups. The impact of this cannot be measured except in the potential harm arising to those living with difficult to diagnose diseases such as ME, Fibromyalgia, MS. Lyme Disease, Mast Cell Activation disease and no doubt many others too. Those of us who rely on seeking help, where the medical profession has no answers is, rely on finding others experiencing similar problems. Let us not pass up on this one without letting Facebook know of the damaging effect this will have on peoples lives. Here is the link: https://www.reuters.com/article/facebook-content-int/facebook-says-it-will-no-longer-show-health-groups-in-recommendations-idUSKBN2682JB

The building blocks of learning. Thinking about ‘social disability’ and access. — The other side

Getting a clearer perspective about Autism is in the language used. 

A blog post in which I talk through some new thinking about the term ‘social disability’. I love an epiphany! God, being autistic is sometimes an absolute blast. I get to peel back layers of a life time’s accumulation of faulty learning and go, wow! so that’s how it really works… Recent adventures have […]

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How Time Wasted on Social Media Inspired Kate Vane to Write Her New Novel Still You Sleep! @k8vane — RatherTooFondofBooks

Interesting insights from author on Learning Disability and Hate Speech. Should make for a revealing read!  

Today I’m delighted to welcome author Kate Vane back to my blog. Kate has written a fab post all about how spending too much time on social media inspired her new novel, Still You Sleep! A lot of us lament the time we spend on social media. It is habit forming and time can race […]

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Cyber-Bullying: Bullying of The Most Devastating Kind — Chateau Cherie

Say no to bullying!

I’m fortunate enough to have grown up in a time when cyber bullying was unheard of. When I was in school, “Street Bullying” or “Playground Bullying” was the type of bullying targets of my generation endured. “Street Bullying” happens face to face. It happens on the playground, in the hallways, the bathrooms and locker rooms […]

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If we do not provide young people with quality sexuality education, the digital world will   — World Education Blog

Facilitating the route to relationships for people with a Learning Disability

By: Joanna Herat, senior programme specialist for health and education at UNESCO, with expertise in comprehensive sexuality education, HIV, and school-related gender-based violence. Joanna is leading the team organizing the Switched On Symposium in Istanbul, Turkey, 19-21 February 2020, around sexuality education in the digital space. Far too many young people grow up without quality […]

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Does Digital Exclusion Undermine Social Media’s Democratizing Capacity? — Massimo Ragnedda

Mutsvairo, B. & Ragnedda, M. (2019). Does Digital Exclusion Undermine Social Media’s Democratizing Capacity? New Global Studies, doi:10.1515/ngs-2019-0035 Claims have been made that the advent of social media and its assumed ability to fuel social strife and organize anti-government protests has empowered people around the world to successfully challenge repressive authorities. However, in an era […]

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Cyber Bullying and Online Trolling — Leooooo | The Anxious Teacher

Hello World 💚 Welcome back to #blogtober 🙌 now don’t get me wrong I do see alot of online abuse over on Twitter, but it seems as if this week online hate and trolling has truly picked up speed – especially among the Mental Health community. Something of which really makes me step back and […]

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